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Tam Starling
"I'm a lot scarier than I look."

A 12-Victory Seasoned Contractor played by Polymorph in Maelstrom

Tam Starling is a fencer who will risk her life to become the ultimate justicar and end all crime. Violently.

She is 13(14) years old, lives in Seattle, Washington, and often appears as A somewhat moody schoolgirl with thick glasses, a backpack, and a fencer's sword.

Tam Starling lives in Maelstrom, a setting where videos of the supernatural go viral every day. Her journal has 17 entries. Her Questionnaire has 27 answers.

Attributes

Brawn

3 Charisma

3 Dexterity

3 Intellect

6 Perception

4

Abilities

4 Alertness

1 Animals

3 Athletics

1 Crafts

2 Culture

1 Drive

0 Firearms

3 Influence

4 Investigation

2 Medicine

6 Melee

1 Occult

2 Performance

1 Science

4 Stealth

2 Survival

3 Technology

2 Thievery

(TapClick for Combat reference)

Initiative: 0 dice

Movement: 0 feet

Dash: 0 feet

Perception + Alertness: 0 dice

At the start of Combat, roll Initiative: Dexterity + Perception Difficulty 6.

Each Round of Combat represents 3 seconds of near-simultaneous action.

It's my Turn

You get one Movement and one Action on your turn every Round of Combat.

Movement

Movement is taken immediately before OR after your Action. It cannot be split.
You may Free Move (0) feet. Minimum 5 feet.
You may Dash up to an additional (0 feet).
- Dashing penalizes your Action -1 die per 5 feet.
All-out Sprint: instead of using free Movement or Dash, you may spend your Action and roll Brawn + Athletics ( dice) Difficulty 6. You move (0 + (Outcome x 5) Feet).

Actions

Attack with your weapon or hands.
Evade by rolling to Defend or Dodge. Your Outcome is "spent" to reduce the Outcome of any incoming attacks until your next Action.
Activate a Power or use an Ability as normal.
Hold your Action by declaring an Action and a triggering event. If the event occurs before your turn on the next Round, you perform the Action.

I'm being attacked

If you have not yet spent your Action this Round, you may use it as a Reaction.

Reactions

Dodge by rolling Dexterity + Athletics ( dice) Difficulty 6. Your Outcome is subtracted from the attacker's.
Defend with your weapon by rolling its attack roll. Your Outcome is subtracted from the attacker's. Availability depends on weapon match-up (tap/hover).
Clash with the attacker using the same roll you would use to Defend. The higher Outcome (not contested) is treated as the result of a successful, undefended attack roll against the loser.

Desperate Defense

If you have already used your Action, you may Exert your Mind to perform a Reaction. Your next Round's Action receives a -2 dice penalty. You cannot Clash as a Desperate Defense or React more than once to a given Action.

Will to Survive

Once per Contract, you may reduce the severity of an incoming Injury up to 5 Severity levels (to a minimum of Severity 5). You also take a point of Mind Damage and suffer a Battle Scar as normal.

If an attack's Outcome is positive after defense, it results in a new Injury with Severity = Outcome + Weapon damage - Armor

Injuries

(Tam Starling is unharmed)

(TapClick for Severe Injury reference)

Injuries Severity 4+ cause a Battle Scar or Equipment destruction and always require Stabilization

Stabilization is the Injury's main treatment, and each Injury can only be successfully Stabilized once

Unstabilized Injuries worsen by 1 Severity level every half hour

Proper Stabilization

Requires an advanced first aid kit for Severity 4 Injuries, a surgery setup for Severity 5 Injuries, and a surgery theater for Severity 6+ Injuries.

Roll Intellect + Medicine, Difficulty equal to Severity

An Outcome of 1 or greater will Stabilize the Injury and stop its degradation.
Outcome 4+ puts the Injury on track to heal clean: its Battle Scar heals with it.
On a Botch, the Injury's Severity increases by 1.
Failed or Botched attempts may be re-attempted at +1 Difficulty per failure.

Makeshift Stabilization

Attempt a major treatment using insufficient or improvised medical equipment.

Roll Intellect + Medicine, Difficulty > Severity

(Difficulty based on materials and tactics used)

Outcome 1+ will Stabilize the Injury and stop its degradation.
However, any Outcome less than 4 increases the Injury’s Severity by 1. Botches also worsen its Battle Scar if it caused one.
Regardless of Outcome, any Battle Scars caused by the Injury will persist after it is fully healed.
Failed or Botched attempts may be retried at +1 Difficulty per failure.

Self-stabilization attempts are rolled at +1 Difficulty.

Battle Scars

Dice penalties from Battle Scars do not stack with Stress

Sensitive Internals (Take +2 damage from called shots to the head)

Weak Stomach (Whenever you face an extreme or overpowering smell, you must succeed a Body roll, Difficulty 9 not to throw up.)

Atrophied Shoulder (One of your shoulders is damaged. Whenever it takes a major blow or is otherwise put under stress the GM may dislocate it. A dislocated limb cannot be used until you Exert your Mind and spend an Action to reset it.)

Body 7

Stress

9 Mind

Miffed

Agitated

Bruised

Distracted

Hurt

-1

Rattled

Injured

-1

Worried

Wounded

-2

Alarmed

Mauled

-3

Frantic

Maimed

-4

Delirious

X_X

Limits

Anguish

Atrocities

Injustice

Near-Death Experience

Traumas

Formal Duelist (Maddening): You must roll self-control to turn down an offered fair fight. You may exert your mind and suffer a limit check failure to ignore the offer if you fail.

Prompt Critical (Maddening): When you are threatened, you must roll Self-Control to avoid entering an immedate and extreme fight-or-flight response. If you fail, you may Exert your Mind to control it.

A Pack of Three/Four (Maddening) Whenever a fellow contractor (who you are not directly acting against) is in danger, you must roll self-control or immediately attempt to assist them

Edge

Whenever , regain one Source. Cooldown: one hour

Circumstances

In Maelstrom

Finances: Comfortable

From Assets and Liabilities

Your finances are in-order, and you can afford to spare some for your Contracting. You have access to $35,000 (or equivalent currency) per Contract.

Illuminated: Debated

Given by dae_kianna

A viral TikTok video of Tam obviously using multiple TK-controlled blades to quickly knock out a cougar in a classroom has sparked rumors of her capabilities and supernatural nature. Some people believe them. Some of the general public, particularly the younger crowd, will identify you as the "TK cat girl" and possibly treat you differently. Thanks to the help of a friend who faked two more videos and then took credit for all three, your inner circle doesn't believe it.

Million Dollar Art Pieces

Given by Ricterx

After a rough trip you managed to get some nice art and artifact's. (You have enough art and artifacts costing 1M dollars in total)

Conditions

From Assets and Liabilities

Sensitive You're emotionally fragile, and very likely to be mentally and emotionally scarred by your experiences. You have four Limits, instead of the usual three.

Imbued After accepting your first Invitation to a Contract, you are Imbued, altering you in several ways. After completing a Contract, your learning and conditioning improves rapidly. However, you require the Contracts to advance. You have an indomitable Will to Survive. You may Exert your Mind to improve the Outcome of your Actions. You are highly receptive to therapy and may "cure" one of your Traumas with counseling on a Downtime.

Adorable You press all the right buttons on people to make them instinctively want to help and protect you. Rolls where your good looks could help are at -2 Difficulty, and social interactions should be role-played accordingly.

Trained Reflexes Your life has been filled with tight situations and violent encounters, so when the fighting starts, you act quickly. You get +3 dice to all Initiative rolls.

Seen Things Your exposure to unspeakable horrors has hardened you. You are at -1 Difficulty to all Trauma rolls. Requires Seasoned status (10 victories).

From Maelstrom

Wormwood Gas Exposure You have been exposed to Wormwood gas (despite your best efforts) If you die, you return to life as a mindless, flesheating zombie in a few Rounds. You count as Undead, recover all previous injuries, & you will not stop attacking until you receive a called shot to the head dealing at least a Severity 4+ wound or receive an appropriate Battle Scar. You mindlessly attack any living thing you can see. You have "0" Mind but suffer no penalties for it. The GM may direct your character or allow you to do so. The GM will decide if any Gifts you have are still functional as an Undead.

Loose Ends

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Advancement

Seasoned

12 Victories - 1 Failure

Remaining Exp: 5
(Earned: 263 - Spent: 258)

An itemized record of every Contract, advancement, and more

Journal

View Tam Starling's Encountered Contractors

Latest 3 of 17 entries

Playing Signalis

...It still hurts. But I think it worked.

Direct action.

Questionnaire

Latest 3 of 27 answers

Moves

Tam Starling has made 2 Moves.

Only GMs who have permission to run Contracts and post World Events in Maelstrom can post Moves for Tam Starling.

Assets And Liabilities

Assets

-9 Trained Reflexes

-3 Beautiful

-0 Seen Things

-0 Imbued

-6 Finances: Comfortable

Liabilities

+3 Traumatized

Trauma: Prompt Critical: Roll self-control to not immedately enter combat when threatened.

+9 Sensitive

+3 Dark Secret

Secret: She killed her bully in highschool. And liked it.

+7 Scarred

Scar: Missing left hand. Lost it in a fencing against a bully who did it on purpose.